RICHARD KAY: Joke's over... Zara turfs out Tindall's pal

Three's a crowd: Zara Phillips told husband Mike Tindall's friend Ollie Phillips to move out of their home

Her late aunt the Princess of Wales famously remarked: ‘There were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded’, but for Zara Phillips it was somewhat easier to unsaddle the interloper: a rowdy rugby-playing lodger.

The Queen’s granddaughter has been putting up her husband Mike Tindall’s chum Ollie Phillips (no relation) at the couple’s £1.5 million Gloucestershire home since January.

But now ladies’ man and self-styled ‘part-time comic’ Ollie, 31, has packed his bags and left the Regency townhouse in Cheltenham after Zara told him that he was no longer welcome.

‘It really was a case of three’s a crowd,’ says a friend. ‘Zara told him she’d simply had enough.

‘She put up with a lot — late night roistering, lying around eating junk food after nights at the pub, and even bringing girls back.

‘But all that rugby stuff is totally not acceptable when you are in a new marriage and training for the Olympics.’

Silver medallist Zara — who was getting up at 5am to tend to her horses at Adlestrop Stables near Moreton-in-Marsh 20 miles away — couldn’t take any more.

‘Zara is a good down-to-earth woman but he overstayed his welcome. There is a limit to how much she could put up with.

‘Ollie overstepped the mark. He even accidentally walked in on Zara when she was in her underwear. And Zara understandably got fed up with it all.’

I gather Zara was also concerned that Durham University-educated Ollie might not be the most domesticating of influences on her husband — he jokingly referred to himself on Twitter as ‘housewife to Mike Tindall’.

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Of course Mike, now a coach at Gloucester, has himself a history of hell-raising — last year he was fined by the rugby governing body and kicked out of the England squad after being caught on CCTV in New Zealand during the World Cup on a drunken night out with an ex-girlfriend.

Zara, who married the former England rugby captain on July 30 last year, gave the date of their first wedding anniversary as the deadline for Ollie to get out.

He has now moved back to London where he was previously living and is flat-sharing with someone else.

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